African Drama and Performance

John Conteh-Morgan is Associate Professor of French and African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University. He is author of Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa and editor of Research in African Literatures. Tejumola Olaniyan is Professor of English and African Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is author of Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance.

Acknowledgments Introduction: Tejumola Olaniyan and John Conteh-Morgan Part 1. General Contexts 1. TBA Wole Soyinka 2. Dimensions of Theatricality in Africa Joachim Fiebach 3. Theater and Anthropology, Theatricality and Culture Johannes Fabian 4. Pre-Texts and Intermedia: African Theater and the Question of History Ato Quayson Part 2. Intercultural Negotiations 5. Soyinka, Euripides, and the Anxiety of Empire Isidore Okpewho 6. Antigone in the "Land of the Incorruptible": Sylvain Bemba's Noces posthumes pour Santigone (Black Wedding Candles for Blessed- Antigone) John Conteh-Morgan 7. Gestural Interpretation of the Occult in the Bin Kadi-So Adaptation of Macbeth Marie-Jos Hourantier 8. Yoruba Gods on the American Stage: August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone Sandra L. Richards Part 3. Radical Politics and Aesthetics 9. Femi Osofisan: The Form of Uncommon Sense Tejumola Olaniyan 10. Revolution and Recidivism: The Problem of Kenyan History in the Plays of Ngugi wa Thiong'o Nicholas Brown 11. The Politics and Theater of Sony Labou Tansi Dominic Thomas Part 4. Popular Expressive Genres and the Performance of Culture 12. Theater for Development and TV Nation: Notes on Educational Soap Opera in South Africa Loren Kruger 13. Literacy, Improvisation, and the Virtual Script in Yoruba Popular Theater Karin Barber 14. Modernity's Trickster: "Dipping" and "Throwing" in Congolese Popular Dance Music Bob W. White 15. How They See It: The Politics and Aesthetics of Nigeria Video Films Akin Adesokan Part 5. The Social as Drama 16. The Turner-Schechner Model of Performance as Social Drama: A Re-examination in Light of Anlo-Ewe Hal Daniel Avorgbedor 17. Theaters of Truth, Acts of Reconciliation: The TRC in South Africa Catherine Cole 18. Theatricality and Social Mimodrama Pius Ngandu Nkashama Bibliography Contributors Index